Hi... > 2. FDISK /CLEARALL 1 > 3. FDISK /MBR > 4. FDISK /PRI:2000
That would be dangerous, I think. The bug report was just "it does not boot after fdisk and sys", not "I want to kill all my data". The solution FDISK /MBR will already be enough. > > run some heavy calculation job, FreeDOS surely will better than any > > Windows server, since DOS have no (or very little) overhead. > Yes, that's what I'm thinking. The problems will arise when you can't do > multi-tasking and multi-threading, and utilizing full power of load > balancing on dual XEON:( Sorry, DOS for heavy server work is like "who needs a building to run a power grid? It is much lower overhead to just hold those wires togeth... > Have you tried DR-DOS's multitasking? Even that will not virtualize the hardware - there is only ONE network card and DR DOS will still run on only ONE CPU (no hyperthreading either). If you use a multitasking operating system, then the kernel controls the network drivers, and it will be able to give several programs at the same time access to the network, by managing connection queues and whatnot. The small DOS overhead can be nice if you run a single program which has to crunch lots of numbers without getting disturbed by other running tasks and by a variety of gadgets that you have in RAM and maybe even eating some CPU time while your number cruncher does not need them at all. On the other hand, there are things for which DOS is definitely NOT best. Eric ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
